Friday, January 13, 2012

Google Social Search - This is annoying

I don't know how to tell this to you, Google.  I don't want to know what my friends think.  I want to know what you, Google, the source of all knowledge and information thinks.  When I search for
"fish", I'm seeking information about "Fish", not information about my friend's fishing trip.  Your failure to see the difference between the time and place for these two searches (one I would do on Google, the source of information, one I would do on Google+ or Facebook or Twitter.)  Maybe Google the source of information should just stay out of these other spheres and let me have my search results unmolested by the annoyance that is "social search".

Update: I found the "Hide social search results" button.  From now on hopefully I won't have to see these "social search results" and we can both forget this every happened.  Google can go back to being a source of information.

Blogger - Disable "share on google+" (option not found)

Attention Google!  You've gone too far again.  Everytime I update a post or create a new post on Blogger, it offers me an annoying pop up box to share on G+.  I don't want to spam my people (who are so few anyway) everytime I fix a typo.  And I'm sick of this box.  It has no "auto share" leave me alone option and no "I don't want to share" leave me alone option.  I'm stuck searching for it on Google, where I didn't find anything (despite the new annoying social search.), but at least now I'll find this post.